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[realists]

[ simple text, straightforward and easy: ]

What are the birthday traditions on your home planets?

[ jyn hasn't celebrated a birthday in something like... fifteen years so to say she's out of practice would be a gross understatement. she tells herself this is cultural anthropology, her mother would be proud. TIME TO LEARN, time to attempt to live like a normal human being... ]

Comments

[realists]

[ what the fuck is earth??? jyn makes a noise that is probably half derision, half a huff of laughter. ]

That sounds absurd.

[11calls]

It's supposed to. The entire book is kind of about things being insane and off kilter.

[realists]

That's ridiculous. People from earth are mad.

[11calls]

I think people from everywhere a bit mad. It's one of those things that make us people.

[realists]

People are usually more varied where I am from. There are so many humans here, it's strange.

[11calls]

Yeah, that is definitely one thing that is really weird. But we're all from so many different versions of Earth too, it's hard to decide if they're all like the same baseline planet.

[realists]

There isn't even an Earth in my galaxy.

[11calls]

Yeah, I've heard that. Some people just sort of think of Earth as you know, dirt under your feet or whatever. It's so weird that the word has the same double meaning at home as it does here, don't you think? Makes you wonder if things are connected and we just don't know about it.